Michael Richards’s visionary sculptures and drawings, created between 1990 and 2001, engage Blackness, flight, diaspora, spirituality, police brutality, and monuments in his largest retrospective to date. Michael Richards: Are You Down? takes its name from one of the last artworks the artist created. In his sculptures and installations, Richards gestures toward both repression and reprieve from…
Academy Award–winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter has defined generations through her work in film and TV. Her art adds dimensionality, flair, and culture to the characters she envisions, giving power to the incredible actors who wear her designs. Her vibrancy and attention to detail in costuming is integral to translating stories of race, politics,…
The annual event, organized by the Media Arts, Design and Technology department in NC State’s College of Design, has grown from a small, grassroots showcase to the largest student-run fashion show in the Southeast. For more than 20 years, it has challenged both student designers and the audience to question the boundaries and conventional definitions of fashion.…
Step into a New Orleans speakeasy-inspired lounge and immerse yourself in a world of sultry jazz, blues, and soulful melodies. Enjoy thoughtfully curated bar snacks from PoshNosh as well as innovative signature cocktails and classics that perfectly complement the live music performances. Recurring the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, 7-10 p.m. with rotating…
This musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (and the popular Steven Spielberg film) spotlights Celie, a downtrodden young woman whose personal awakening over the course of forty years forms the arc of an epic story of the gift of courage summoned by friendship. With a joyous score featuring jazz, ragtime, gospel, African music…
